10:2210:22, 13 August 2022diffhist+149
Metal detector
The previous text implied that Edison's metal detector of 1881 used thermionic tubes, which were not invented until the mid 1900s. Corrected this with the minimum possible changes to the text.
12:0012:00, 21 October 2021diffhist+17
Fondant icing
→Physical chemistry: The "Types" secton does not describe poured fondant, and the next section was called "Physical chemistry" so a quick glance would not discover that this is where poured fondant is discussed. I clarified this by adding to the heading. Almost a minor edit.
11:0811:08, 24 September 2021diffhist+446
Whitebait
Inserted reference to chopitos/puntillitas, which is "whitebait" made with baby cephalopods (cuttlefish, squid or octopus) rather than vertibrate fish, but likely to be researched under the generic heading of "whitebait". Reference to Spanish Wikipedia is not intended to validate but is simply to allow more detail to readers who understand Spanish or can use Google Translate.Tag: use of deprecated (unreliable) source
13:4113:41, 2 April 2021diffhist−53
Elizabeth Sander
Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne in 1558, not 1603 (she died in 1603). If Sander was born in 1572 she would have been about six when she left to become a nun, and only eight when she was imprisoned, and moreover would have been born 42 years after her brother Nicholas, who was not her eldest sibling. This seems very unlikely, so I have deleted references to her birth date..
07:3207:32, 24 May 2020diffhist+34
John Gregson
Corrected education link: [A] he attended St Francis Xavier's College (SFX) in Liverpool, not the one previously linked which was in Kowloon - Hong Kong, [B] at the time Gregson attended SFX was in Salisbury Street in the centre of Liverpool (building is now part of the Hope University). SFX did not move to Woolton until 1961, when Gregson was 42.
07:1207:12, 1 October 2019diffhist+258
San Serriffe
Added reference to the fact that San Seriffe is moving towards Sri Lanka, with which it will, eventually, collide.